FezComicRESTPy

A Django REST Framework REST API backend for FezComic. This project is prepared to work with MySQL and SQLite and containerized using Docker. For SQLite use master branch and for MySQL use mysql branch

Table of Contents

• Software Requirements Specification
• Installation
• Usage
• Contributing
• Credits
• License

Software Requirements Specification

It will be uploaded at some point to serve as a reference.

Installation

Requirements:

• Docker

Additional requirements without using Docker:

• Python 3

Steps without Docker:

Install Python 3 and create a virtual environment

$ python3 -m venv env

Activate the virtual environment

$ source env/bin/activate

Download all dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

If you want to use SQLite, change managed = False to managed = True in models.py and then launch the following commands

$ python manage.py makemigrations FezComicServerPython
$ python manage.py migrate

Or if you prefer to use MySQL, run init.sql script on your MySQL database and then create a file named .env with your database configuration:

MYSQL_HOST=localhost
MYSQL_PORT=3306
MYSQL_USER=yourDatabaseUser
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=yourDatabaseRootPassword
MYSQL_PASSWORD=yourDatabasePassword

This file is used by theskumar/python_dotenv library to add those variables to the environment, which settings.py consumes.

Notes:

• You may use .env.sample as a reference

• Do not rename MYSQL_USER, MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD and MYSQL_PASSWORD if you are using Docker. Those names are reserved by MySQL Docker image.

Steps using Docker:

Simply build the container

$ docker-compose build

Usage

Usage without Docker

Run a local server using your Python3 virtual environment

(env) $ python manage.py runserver

Usage with Docker

If you prefer to use MySQL, create a file named .env with your database configuration:

MYSQL_HOST=db
MYSQL_PORT=3306
MYSQL_USER=yourDatabaseUser
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=yourDatabaseRootPassword
MYSQL_PASSWORD=yourDatabasePassword

This file is used by theskumar/python_dotenv library to add those variables to the environment, which settings.py consumes.

Notes:

• You may use .env.sample as a reference

• Make sure your MYSQL_HOST is set to db. Otherwise, Django won't be able to locate the autogenerated database. That is because db is the name of the database service defined at docker-compose.yml

• Do not rename MYSQL_USER, MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD and MYSQL_PASSWORD if you are using Docker. Those names are reserved by MySQL Docker image.

Run the container.

$ docker-compose up

Also, if you want to build, run and leave it as a background process, run the following command

$ docker-compose up --build --detach

Contributing

There is no plan regarding contributions in this project

Credits

This web application has been developed by:

Rafael Pernil Bronchalo - Software Architect and Developer

• github/rafaelpernil2

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details